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Stephanie Maxwell's work gets me. Her work is fuelled by a breathless, giddy energy and passion that seeps through every whore of a pore. Like a child, she is excited by a seemingly minute discovery – like an anthill, river or a rock. Maxwell's work is an extension of that explorative part of our childhood. She has a tenacious fascination with the natural world; a world that too many of us (myself included) have left behind in favour of simulated realities. - Chris Robinson
Visit Stephanie Maxwell's website for further information and to view clips of her films
(http://www.rit.edu/~sampph/).
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Programme:
Thursday, September 23, 9:00 pm (National Gallery)
Saturday, September 25, 7:00 pm (National Gallery)
Running time: 60:00 mins. |
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GA [1982]
Stephanie Maxwell / 5:00
A variety of experimental hand painted and engraving techniques were used to highlight the animal motifs that are represented in this diurnal abstract motion world. |
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Please Don't Stop [1989]
Stephanie Maxwell / 5:00
A wild road journey through both representational and abstract landscapes, hand painted on 35mm film stocks. |
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Driving Abstractions [1997]
Stephanie Maxwell / 5:00
The experience of driving at night is abstracted in the form of colourful, energetic bursts and patterns of light in a three dimensional darkness. |
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Outermost [1998]
Stephanie Maxwell & Allan Schindler / 5:00
Musical ideas and visual images are perceived to chase each other, to dance, pull apart and come back together again in cyclical arcs. |
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Nocturne [1999]
Stephanie Maxwell & Greg Wilder / 3:00
Glimpses and glimmers of light mixed with sparse, restless sounds give direction and meaning in a dark secluded environment. |
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Somewhere [1999]
Stephanie Maxwell & Allan Schindler / 5:00
A fluid, intricate, high energy and yet unpredictable piece examining the play between the symmetrical and asymmetrical. |
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Fragments [2000]
Stephanie Maxwell & Greg Wilder / 7:00
This abstract work reconstructs visuals and sounds of objects and graphic materials and creates new identities for them. |
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terra incognita [2001]
Stephanie Maxwell & Allan Schindler / 4:30
The fusion of imagery and music expresses an ever-changing flux and paradox in perceived space and location. The 35 mm film was treated to an assortment of physical manipulations and post-production procedures. |
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passe-partout [2002]
Stephanie Maxwell & Allan Schindler / 6:00
An abstract film/music composition which presents an environment where an aerial mobile is magically suspended in a three dimensional space. |
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Time Streams [2003]
Stephanie Maxwell & Allan Schindler / 5:30
Segments and ribbons of “time” evoke past, present, and illusory experience in this hand-painted 35 mm animated film with a computer-generated score. |
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Reflecting Pool [2004]
Stephanie Maxwell, Matt Costanza & Randall Hall / 9:00
A cycle of chaos and recovery. This multi-layered work presents a contemplative, but highly charged, visual and musical expression. |
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